Hiqlite by sebadob

Hiqlite - highly-available, embeddable, raft-based SQLite + cache

databaseraftrustsqlitehigh-availabilitycachedistributed-locks
Verdict 62/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty Last release 23 days ago

Self-host Hiqlite on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
62 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
439
24 forks

About Hiqlite

From the project's README at github.com/sebadob/hiqlite. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

Hiqlite is an embeddable SQLite database that can form a Raft cluster to provide strong consistency, high availability (which is where derives from), replication, automatic leader fail-over and self-healing features. Why

Why another SQLite replication solution? Other projects exist already that can do this. The problem is that none of them checks all boxes. They either require an additional independent process running on the side which can do async replication, need a special file system, have bad throughput / latency, or are running as a server.

I don't think that running SQLite as a server is a good solution. Yes, it is very resource friendly, and it may be a good choice when you are heavily resource constrained, but you lose its biggest strength when doing this: having all your data local, which makes reads superfast without network latency.

Hiqlite builds on top of and provides an async wrapper around it. For the Raft logic, it builds on top of while providing its own storage and network implementations. Goal

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
53
maturity
84
community
77
security
70
sustainability
88
adoption
21

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 439 github.com/sebadob/hiqlite
GitHub forks 24 github.com/sebadob/hiqlite
CRATES downloads (last month) 2.4k hiqlite

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age1.8 yearssince Jul 2024
Last commit13 days agoApr 24, 2026
Releases shipped24last: 23 days ago
Funding links1declared by maintainers

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

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